European Training Foundation

National Network
Italy
Address

Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo, 35
10133, Torino
Italy

Telephone
+390116302319
E-Mail
gma@etf.europa.eu
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1995
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
The European Training Foundation is an agency of the European Union based in Turin, Italy . It became operational in 1994. The ETF currently employs approximately 130 staff and has an annual budget of about 18 million €. We recruit and deploy experts from multiple disciplines to handle complex and multidimensional topics in a team environment, in order to create new knowledge, insight and solutions.
Mission and Objectives

Our mission is to help transition and developing countries to harness the potential of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labour market systems in the context of the Eu's external relations policy.

Main Projects / Activities

The activities are structured around a series of projects that take place in the partner countries to facilitate the reform of vocational education and training and employment systems. All activities we carry out aim at providing services to the European Commission, our partner countries and the EU Member States.
We support our partner countries by providing opportunities for policy learning on reform strategies to policy makers and key stakeholders in the countries. We provide advice on vocational education and training policy and innovative approaches in EU and relevant good practice from other partner countries. We seek to enable policy makers to integrate their reform efforts within the overall support framework provided by the EU. We also support our partner countries to develop participatory policy development to ensure ownership and sustainability for the reform process.

Contact (1) Full Name
Gerard Mayen
Head of the organisation
Madlen Serban